What are you reading?

Chet · Post by **Chet** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:42 am

Flying back from Denver I finished the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Wicked, evil, funny, complicated tale...

mindehankins · Post by **mindehankins** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:26 am

"St. John: Feet, Fins & Four-Wheel Drive," "St. John: Off the Beaten Track," this website and Tripadvisor! Studying like it's my job!

sailorgirl · Post by **sailorgirl** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:24 am

"The Book Thief," just started it, I'll let you know

cass · Post by **cass** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:10 pm

I am fairly certain that I will finish up Wicked tonight (thank goodness). It has taken me weeks to get through it, because I think that it is awful. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the very last paragraph will turn the whole thing around!

...doubtful!

I'm looking for a good one to start next, but only after I read Angels and Demons again. I want to get through it once more before the movie comes out!

LysaC · Post by **LysaC** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:46 am

i felt the same way about "wicked". it was torture to finish it (did i finsih ?).

chicagoans · Post by **chicagoans** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:52 am

mindehankins wrote:"St. John: Feet, Fins & Four-Wheel Drive," "St. John: Off the Beaten Track," this website and Tripadvisor! Studying like it's my job!

Me too! Although this week my "Off the Beaten Track" got to go to Caneel without me. (Loaned to someone else.)

Lately I've been reading some non-fiction (parenting stuff, business stuff). But I will probably pick up the 2nd Twilight book soon. I like to read those 'tween' books because my 12 y.o. daughter does, and I like to know what she's reading. I liked the first one; bought it at the airport and just about finished it by the time we got to Kauai. Sometimes I need a lightweight book like that to escape into! So much more fun than a business book. I slog through those.

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:28 am

OK-- on the third Sookie Stackhouse book and I gotta say they are a TON of fun! Easy to read, interesting twists and fascinating characters. I definitely recommend these-- and once I'm through I'm going to find something to read other than about vampires!

Although it begs the question... once you go vamp.. can you really ever go back??

PA Girl · Post by **PA Girl** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:50 am

Gromit wrote: Although it begs the question... once you go vamp.. can you really ever go back??

I have the Stackhouse books and the Twilight series on my reading list and I am wondering the same thing.

I have a tendency to completely immerse myself in a subject and/or read every book an author has written. Then I get burned out.

chicagoans · Post by **chicagoans** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:26 pm

PA Girl wrote: I have a tendency to completely immerse myself in a subject and/or read every book an author has written. Then I get burned out.

I know exactly what you mean! I went through that with Anne Rice's vampire series, and through an Anne River Siddons phase (loved them all except 'John Chancellor' which was a departure for her), Jodi Picoult, Barbara Kingsolver, Dan Brown, Robert Ludlum... I'll read as many by an author that I can get my hands on, then move on. (I don't usually admit this, but I even read all the 'Clan of the Cave Bear' series.)

Loved the Harry Potter series because we read those with the kids. I'd like to find something similarly engaging that we would all enjoy. (Actually I'd like to write something similarly engaging and make the zillions... but today I worked on a white paper about Business Rules Technology. I don't think that's going to make any best seller lists.)

vi lover · Post by **vi lover** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:12 pm

"A Deadly Silver Sea" by Bob Morris.

This is the third in the Zack Chastain series. First 2 were Bahamarama and Jamaica Me Dead. Always a tropical setting for Zack's adventures.

KatieH · Post by **KatieH** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:01 am

[quote="chicagoans but today I worked on a white paper about Business Rules Technology. I don't think that's going to make any best seller lists.)[/quote]

Perhaps if you market it as a non addicting sleep agent it might

soxfan22 · Post by **soxfan22** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:08 pm

Just picked up a copy of Mark Levin's new book "Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto".

It's been in the stores for maybe two weeks, and is number on on the Amazon bestseller list. When I went into Borders, they were sold out...Thinking I was looking in the wrong place, I asked the lady at the desk if they had a copy (this was last week)...She said no (they had sold out), but the that the Borders Express in the mall had two copies...She said she knew that because in the time she had been there that day (she came in at 1:00 PM), ten people had come in looking for this book (I was there at 3:30).

Preaching to the choir in my case, but a great look at the thoughts and ideas of our founding fathers, the founding documents, and the men like Adam Smith, Charles Montesquieu, and Edmund Burke - men from whom they drew their inspiration for a decentralized government.

chicagoans · Post by **chicagoans** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:06 pm

soxfan22 wrote:Just picked up a copy of Mark Levin's new book "Liberty & Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto".

Really? I would have pegged you for an Al Franken fan. You must have finished his book already.

I'm saying this because I know you can take a joke.

soxfan22 · Post by **soxfan22** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:15 pm

Al franken should've stayed on SNL. He did a great Stuart Smalley, and gosh darn it - people liked him!

I have to say though, I did listen to his show on Airhead America Radio - he was quite entertaining!

That is one angry little man right there!

silverheels · Post by **silverheels** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:30 pm

Mark Levin was on the Imus radio show this morning. Seems that Mrs. Imus is a big fan of his.

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